From Google's Privacy Policy:
We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we use service providers to help us with customer support.
And even without that, if they allow very specific groups of people to be targeted based on very detailed criteria, with very specific ads.. then your data still leaks to unknown 3rd parties, though indirectly.
The most modern CD ripper frontend for Linux I've found is whipper, which is a fork of morituri. It also has detailed log files, no ideas if "certain sites" accept them or not.
Due to dependency shenanigans I couldn't run it on Debian so I created an LXC container on my server running Ubuntu 18.04, passed the /dev/sr0 block device and it worked.
I'd be curious how well cdparanoia handles his CD if at all. Furthermore I read a post on a forum where someone tested a bunch of drives with scratched CDs and the Samsung SH-2xxxx drives performed the best. No idea of the exact methodology he used.
(Before you ask. I didn't buy this drive based on his post, bought it 7 years ago for my desktop on a whim) Still gotten 100% track quality out of whipper with some minor scratched discs.
They can parse it, but seem to want some proprietary plugin to create signed checksums to prevent (though in reality only for the most unknowledgeable) log spoofing.
Does the default log file list the locations of sectors that failed to read? There's also a question of interpolation for obliterated sectors. Many would prefer there to be no data than interpolated data because that's a much more obvious failure mode.
> Your public library and services like Overdrive are "NetFlix for text".
They're NetFlix for books and formal periodical publications, both of which are more movie-like: there are a relatively small number of publishers and publishing a full-length book is a substantial, multi-person project, as is publishing a magazine or newspaper. There's a huge wealth of text out there that has no chance of ever hitting any library or central seller/distributor of etexts.
Judging by the stuff that comes up when you browse categories, or when NetFlix wants to suggest something to you, the only "curation" involved is whether they were able to get rights to display the content. There's no quality standard, and there's no logical standard (like "if we offer the second film in this series, maybe we should offer the first one too") either.
You've clearly never been to my local public library - this is often how things are there - second and fourth book in a four book series there, first and third nowhere to be found.
In the case of a library, I would tend to suspect one of these scenarios:
- The first and third book are currently checked out.
- The library acquired all four books, but the first and third have been destroyed / lost / stolen by customers.
- The library didn't acquire any of the books, but the second and fourth were donated and the library chose to absorb them rather than selling or destroying them.
None of those are even conceptually applicable to NetFlix. I definitely would not expect
- The library has a limited budget, and considered that it would be better spent buying the second book than the first book.
Note that NetFlix's inventory of physical discs doesn't suffer from the same problems that its streaming inventory does. That is (most likely) because it's trivial to obtain the legal right to distribute the physical discs -- you just buy them on the open market, the same way a library does with its books. NetFlix's streaming inventory isn't "curated", it's not under NetFlix's control at all.
I've toyed with having a "Watch me Linux" stream where chat shouts out things they want to know about Linux and I show them / help people with their Linux problems.
I'd like to do some infrastructure streams where I play around with things like my Kubernetes cluster, unfortunately it seems like a pretty bad idea to livestream configuration of something that is connected to the internet.
I was going to set up a VirtualBox virtual network disconnected from the Internet to do this - perhaps only allowing HTTPS to a Debian/Ubuntu mirror if I need to install packages. You could do something similar for your Kubernetes cluster.
I was also considering a cheap, pay-by-the hour VPS that I could just destroy after the stream.
You can live like a king on $72,000 a year in the midwest, and the bonus is that the northern part gets so cold in the winter that there's not much else to do but work and stream!
Don't forget to pay your taxes (about double what you would pay as a regular employee; your employer pays a portion of that behind the scenes) out of that, plus any health insurance you want to pick up. That $72,000 yearly will vanish pretty quickly.
Made $73,500 last year as a freelance software consultant last year. Sole breadwinner in my house - my wife doesn't work.
Paid my estimated federal and state income taxes through the year, paid federal and state taxes at the end of the year, paid for a decent tier in the healthcare exchange, put away as much for retirement as was prudent, and still had more than enough money to take two months of the year off and pay for a three bedroom, two bathroom house in the suburbs (mortgage, utilities, and insurance all paid).
It's not impossible here, but it is impossible in the Bay Area.
This isn’t true at all. The only extra tax you pay as a contractor is the other 7.65% of the FICA, or $5500 here. You also get a bunch of new deductions you can take, including that $5500 itself.
If they did that then they'd have to admit to themselves and the world that they're only making the situation worse, not better, by focusing on these types of stories.
